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Week 03: Computer-Controlled Cutting

Parametric press fit kit and sandblasted glass

Hero image Press Fit Construction Kit I created triangle press fit kit from cardboard and sandblasted glass using vinyle cut mask.

Assignments

Group assignment:

  • Do your lab’s safety training
  • Characterize your lasercutter’s focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types.
  • Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned.

Individual assignments

  • Design, lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit, accounting for the lasercutter kerf.
  • Cut something on the vinyl cutter.

1. Group Assignment

Step 1-1: Research

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2. Parametric design

3. Vinyl Cutter and sand blasting

Checklist

  • [ ] Linked to the group assignment page.
  • [ ] Reflected on your individual page what you learned of your labs safety training
  • [ ] Explained how you created your parametric design.
  • [ ] Documented how you made your press-fit construction kit.
  • [ ] Documented how you made something with the vinyl cutter.
  • [x] Included your original design files.
  • [x] Included hero shots of your results.

Digital Files

References

Copyright 2026 Fumiko Toyoda - Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Source code hosted at gitlab.fabcloud.org